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When the letter came to the men, they slaughtered all 70 heirs. They put the heads in baskets and sent them to Jehu in Jezreel. A messenger told him, “They’ve brought the heads of the king’s heirs.”

Jehu said, “Put them in two piles at the entrance to the gateway until morning.” In the morning he stood there. He told the people, “You are innocent. I plotted against my master and killed him. But who killed all these men?

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